Twenty-five students recently participated in Central Carolina Community College's Laser & Photonics FUN with Lasers Workshop.
LILLINGTON - Twenty-five students recently participated in the spring 2015 Laser & Photonics FUN with Lasers Workshop on Central Carolina Community College's Harnett Campus. Gary Beasley, who is Lead Instructor for the CCCC's Laser & Photonics program, conducted the event.
Students attended from Buies Creek, Cliffdale, Highland, and Lafayette elementary schools; Benson, Coats-Erwin, Dunn, Fuquay-Varina, Harnett Central, Holly Ridge, Overhills, Red Oak, SanLee and Western Harnett middle schools; Harnett Central, Overhills, and Triton high schools; and from Cape Fear Christian Academy and Anderson Creek Club Charter School.
Lab Assistants Chris Baggett, Kaitlyn Camp, Colt Dudley, and Alex Voytik were on hand to demonstrate how electrical components are used to conduct light, melt a brick using a high-powered laser beam, and show students a colorful light display using an Argon-Krypton Laser. The workshop taught students how crystals and fiber are incorporated into the technology they use every day. Students watched as their names appeared on a nametag with the use of the CO2 Engraving Laser.
For more information about Central Carolina's Laser & Photonics program, visit the college's web site at www.cccc.edu or contact Gary Beasley, Lead Instructor, at gbeasley@cccc.edu. For more information on CCCC's spring High Touch/High Tech workshops series and/or summer programs that are part of the Youth Enrichment Series (YES), contact Wrenn L. Crowe at wcrowe@cccc.edu.
Twenty-five students recently participated in Central Carolina Community College's Laser & Photonics FUN with Lasers Workshop.